Title:Cold war historiography at the crossroads
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Author(s):ROMERO, FedericoDate:2014Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:How is the Cold War understood in an expanding and diversifying historiographical field? Conceptual precision and specificity seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed ...

Title:French eighteenth-century materialists and natural law
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Author(s):THOMSON, AnnDate:2014Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article looks at the discussions of natural law by the eighteenth-century French materialists Julien Offray de La Mettre, Denis Diderot, Paul Thiry d'Holbach and Claude-Adrien Helvétius. It is particularly concerned ...

Title:The EU’s explicit and implicit heritage politics
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Author(s):LÄHDESMÄKI, TuuliDate:2014Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:During the past couple of decades, heritage has become topical in a new way in Europe as the concept has been utilized for political purposes in the EU cultural policy. The EU currently administrates or supports three ...

Title:Iraq’s descent into civilwar : a constitutional explanation
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Author(s):ROMANO, DavidDate:2014Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In early June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and a constellation of Sunni Arab tribes and former Ba‘thists captured Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. Much of the Iraqi Armed Forces disintegrated, and ...